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Is there any value in "Past-Life" regressions? What do You think.

Hi

The value of any regression work is in the meaning that the client invests into it. If you are speaking about value in terms of accurately gaining information about the past, this is debatable. Memory is not recorded like a camera. It is formed through associations, connections made in your neural network. To remember something is to do just as the word implies- re member, put back together. We don't remember the same event in exactly the same way every time. Memories that are recalled during regression may be accurate or may not be.

The accuracy of such memories is of little importance. What does matter is how the client interacts with that memory. I use regression during my therapy work, although not all of the time, and it can be an incredibly powerful tool for change. I couldn't care less if the memories brought up are "real" or not. What is important to me is the fact that the client's unconscious mind has chosen that as a symbolic representation and how we can work with that to create the change the client wants.

Cheers!
KP

Regressions when done correctly can be verifiable. Though a progression of thoughtfully structures sessions and the proper trance level much of the speculation can be eliminated. But as with any experience, it will be in the context of the person personality and state of mind at the time of the recalled event. Past Life Regression can be helpful.

Originally Posted by BwellBTR

Regressions when done correctly can be verifiable. Though a progression of thoughtfully structures sessions and the proper trance level much of the speculation can be eliminated. But as with any experience, it will be in the context of the person personality and state of mind at the time of the recalled event. Past Life Regression can be helpful.

I will have to respectfully disagree.

Trance level has absolutely nothing to do with the accuracy of memory or any other hypnotic phenomenon (with the exception of one which I won't go into here). You can get amnesia, hypernesia, revivification, and regression in a light trance or deep trance and everywhere in between. The use of regression to gain accurate information from memory is not scientifically verifiable. Sure there are all sorts of pseudo scientific spiritual books out there that make claims to it however there is no independently verifiable data that proves the validity of past life regression as a means of gaining information. The importance of past life regression lays in its therapeutic value not whether or not the event actually happened.

1. An exception, even one means not a valid statement? 2. Trance level is not important as to level of recognition of the quiery to known information? 3. Can rephrasing add weight to a suggestion, and if so can it add clearity to the consistency of the answers?. Just wondering...

Originally Posted by BwellBTR

1. An exception, even one means not a valid statement? 2. Trance level is not important as to level of recognition of the quiery to known information? 3. Can rephrasing add weight to a suggestion, and if so can it add clearity to the consistency of the answers?. Just wondering...

1) I'm not sure what your asking here.

2) Trance depth or level is not important period. In fact even the idea of level is a metaphor.

3) What do you mean by this question?

I would be most interested in reading the published paper that states deep/ level of induced trance is not at all important in therapeutic hypnosis. Thank you in advance for directing me to this important information.

Originally Posted by BwellBTR

I would be most interested in reading the published paper that states deep/ level of induced trance is not at all important in therapeutic hypnosis. Thank you in advance for directing me to this important information.

There were two papers published within the last two years that looked at the effects of hypnosis and suggestion on the Stroop effect. It was shown that the Stroop Effect was over ridden both with hypnosis and with waking suggestion. I don't have the citation for it. You will have to google for it. That shows that trance depth has nothing to do with the successful manifestation of hypnotic phenomena.

As a whole there hasn't been any peer reviewed study that deals with or even acknowledges trance depth as a real thing beyond referring to some groups as "highly hypnotizable"

Now if you're talking outside the scope of academia start looking at conversational/ indirect hypnosis. Look at the works of Igor Ledochowski, John Overdurf, Steve Brooks, Steve Gilligan, John Grinder, etc. Most of them have wonderful courses of study available. Most of their stuff is not available through amazon but through their professional websites.

I can tell you from my experience as a professional hypnotherapist and hypnotherapy trainer that trance depth doesn't matter in most cases- especially within the realm of memory.

All the Best,
KP

Originally Posted by BwellBTR

Is there any value in "Past-Life" regressions? What do You think.

It helps remove phobia, illness, or any spiritual progression that is connected to past lives.

To quote some examples
Case 1: Girl was scared of lizards, it was making her life miserable to the extent she could not be in the same room if she saw a lizard, had lot of problems after marriage due to this phobia, with no known cause in her childhood, she was regressed to past which had answers she was buried by her stepfather in a pit with dessert lizards. Is completely relieved now.

Case 2: Recurrent backaches, no amount of physiotherapy or treatments or medicine was helping all types of treatment had been tried, had roots to past life where she was stabbed from behind. Completely relived now

Case 3: Recurrent incident that are out of control, has always had someone controlling or self could not control others, need to control others, monk in a past life who excelled in martial arts but died of earthquake that cannot be controlled. This lifetime it continues until the person learns how to go with flow and understand that all cannot be controlled and only self can be